SHOT: ISIS using encrypted communication to remote-control attacks on the west
The New York Times published a story by Rukmini Callimachi today which explains how ISIS handlers are using encrypted communication to remote-control attacks on western nations, including the United States. The attackers, who are often mistaken for lone wolves, have sometimes been trained and guided by ISIS handlers right up to the moment of the attack. One example: The attackers who opened fire on the Prophet Muhammad cartoon contest in Garland, Texas. Remote terror planners have been behind a number of attacks that made international news and which, at first glance, appeared to be the work of lone wolves.
CHASER: Federal employees are using encrypted communications to ‘resist Trump’
Whether inside the Environmental Protection Agency, within the Foreign Service, on the edges of the Labor Department or beyond, employees are using new technology as well as more old-fashioned approaches — such as private face-to-face meetings — to organize letters, talk strategy, or contact media outlets and other groups to express their dissent.
The goal is to get their message across while not violating any rules covering workplace communications, which can be monitored by the government and could potentially get them fired.
So let’s be clear here. Let’s make it crystal clear so no one will miss it. It’ll put it in bold, just in case.
What these federal employees are doing is against the law and would justifiably get them fired. So they’re hiding it by using encrypted communications.
This is nothing new for loyal readers of the ‘Grok. For years, it has become clear and evident that
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